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SUPPORTING. AT RISK STUDENTS. ATTENDANCE. Enrollment District Attendance Truancy/Legal Notices Dropout Report Teenage Pregnancy. Enrollment. Attendance. WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS . NOTICE OF UNEXCUSED ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL. CA2 Legal Notification. CA2.

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  1. SUPPORTING AT RISK STUDENTS

  2. ATTENDANCE Enrollment District Attendance Truancy/Legal Notices Dropout Report Teenage Pregnancy

  3. Enrollment

  4. Attendance

  5. WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOTICE OF UNEXCUSED ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL CA2 LegalNotification

  6. CA2 • Notifies parents or guardian that they have failed to send their child to school which is required by law. • For each day a child misses school, the parent/guardian must provide a valid written excuse to the school as to why the child has missed. • Parents may write five excuses each semester, however any other days must have a medical excuse from a physician or a legal excuse for a day required to be in court.

  7. CA2 • The law requires that the parentreport in person to the school within 10 days of receipt of this letter. The parent and child must hold a conference with the principal or his or her designee, in order to discuss and correct the circumstances causing the unexcused absences of your child. • Any person who, after receiving due notice, shall fail to cause a child under eighteen years of age in that person’s legal or actual charge to attend school without just cause, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction of a first offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) together with the costs of prosecution, which is approximately an additional one hundred sixty-five dollars ($165).

  8. CA2-Sent Out

  9. Truancy • 295 students • Magistrate Court: K-5th (SS: K-8) • Circuit Court: 6th-12th

  10. Accomplishments • Identified students with 20 or more unexcused absences from EOY report. • Monitor attendance throughout the year using School Messenger & WVEIS. • Each school submits a plan to tackle attendance issues. • Send CA2 with 5 or more unexcused absences.

  11. Accomplishments • Provide training for school secretaries on entering absences and excuses. • Beginning of the year we meet with Juvenile Pro. Officer, Prosecuting Attorney, Magistrates, and Judges to come up with a work plan on dealing with our truancy problem. • Truancy Diversion Interventionist-MV • Social Workers/WE, SS, SRMS, & MVHS

  12. Dropout Report224-Total

  13. Key Indicators in WV 6th Grade • Attendance below 90% • 1+ suspensions or serious disciplinary events • 1+ semester course failures • Failing a Math course • Failing an ENLA course 9th Grade • Attendance below 85% • 2+ suspensions or serious disciplinary events • 2 + semester course failures • Failing a Math course • Failing an ENLA course

  14. Accomplishments • Option Pathway • Core Advisory Committee on Dropout Prevention • Held four community forums on addressing the dropout problem in McDowell County • Post Discussions Survey were completed and will be compiled • Exit Conferences

  15. Accomplishments • Retentions • Credit Recovery • onTarget WV • SAT/Referrals/Interventions • Building Relationships with Students

  16. Teenage Pregnancy • Teenage birthrates decreased in every state in the country from 2007 through 2009 except in West Virginia, which saw a 17 percent increase, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. • McDowell County was among the top five counties with the highest rates of teen births with an average of 93.3 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19. • The five West Virginia counties with the highest rates of teen birth all have high poverty rates.

  17. Teenage Pregnancy • Fewer than four in 10 mothers (38 percent) who have a child before they turn 18 have a high school diploma, WV FREE's report states, with 30 percent of teen girls crediting pregnancy or parenting as a key reason for dropping out of school. • 17 out of 64 students (27 percent) who are on homebound are pregnant.

  18. McDowell Birth Profile

  19. Accomplishments • Initiated a McDowell County Teen Pregnancy Prevention Task Force-partnering with WVDE, RESA, WV Family Planning, Tug River Health Clinic, CASE WV, Teen Pregnancy Prevention and WVDHHR • Resource Center in each HS • On- Site Family Planning Services • Classes taught by TPP (teen pregnancy prevention & APPI (adolescent pregnancy prevention initiative)

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